An official at the National Committee for Disaster Management said Monday that abnormal weather conditions this year could lead to food shortages and that El Nino could be to blame. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Advocates for the disabled yesterday criticised the slow implementation of Cambodia’s six-year-old disability law and urged the government to hasten the process by starting the distribution of the monthly $5 pension that people with disabilities were promised in 2011 through a separate sub-decree. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Sihanoukville AutonomouS Port, one of two State-owned companieS Slated to liSt on the Cambodia SecuritieS Exchange thiS year, yeSterday called the price decline in the country&rSquo;S firSt publicly traded company worriSome. The eight-day Slide in price that neared Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority&rSquo;S initial public offering SS='cambodia-color'>...

The finance ministry has authorised the extension of the Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc’s (CGCC) $200 million Business Recovery Guarantee scheme (BRGs) beyond December 31, 2022, until all funds have been utilised, according to the CGCC. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Credit Guarantee Corporation of Cambodia Plc (CGCC) reportedly issued a total of 1,155 Letters of Guarantee (LG) for loans worth $104.9 million equivalent as of February 28 – up 13 per cent year-to-date – as part of its mission to improve financial inclusion among small- ss='cambodia-color'>...

Philip Hampden-Smith, general manager of SoutheaSt ASia operationS at Manulife, talkS about the company&rSquo;S entry into the Cambodian market and what the new few yearS might bring. Cambodia&rSquo;S naScent life inSurance induStry may be juSt only a year old but the nation of nearly 15 million SS='cambodia-color'>...

The bilateral C volume between Cambodia and the United StateS reached 2.2 billion U.S. dollarS in the firSt nine monthS of thiS year, a 2 percent riSe compared with 2.15 billion U.S. dollarS at the Same period laSt year, according to the StatiSticS of the SS='cambodia-color'>...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton iS in Cambodia where She met with Prime MiniSter Hun Sen to diScuSS U.S. inveStment and Cambodia&rSquo;S outStanding debt. Cambodia wantS the United StateS to forgive more than $400 million in debt accrued by the US-backed military government of Lon SS='cambodia-color'>...

The U.N.’s human rights office in Cambodia expressed concern Monday that 22 detained protesters may not be allowed to attend their trials on Friday, while the government insisted that the prisoners will be transported to the court. Two minors were arrested for intentional violence for their ss='cambodia-color'>...

The European Union’s ambassador to Cambodia yesterday urged the government to heed the advice of the U.N.’s visiting human rights envoy, who has come under increasing rebuke from officials for his unflattering reports. Addressing a crowd of about 3,000, mostly garment factory workers, at Phnom Penh’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun sen on Friday criticized U.s. threats to cut aid to the impoverished southeast Asian nation if its election wasn’t free and fair, and dared American lawmakers to follow through on their warning. His comments came after U.s. lawmakers started processes in the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Speaking during an annual workShop in Siem Reap province &ndaSh; Review on Child&rSquo;S Health and ProgreSS of Early ESSential Newborn Care (EENC) Implementation in Cambodia &ndaSh; Kumanan RaSanathan Said the mortality rate among children under five declined laSt year to 29 per 1,000, compared to SS='cambodia-color'>...

A prominent union leader on Tuesday threatened to hold a large-scale demonstration if the newly elected government ignores the European Union’s resolution demanding a political compromise between the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and the court-dissolved Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). ss='cambodia-color'>...

Dwindling donor funding for combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculoSiS could have a critical impact on low-income countrieS like Cambodia, a new Study haS found, with Some health workerS in the Kingdom Saying that the Squeeze iS already being felt. &nbSp; SS='cambodia-color'>...

A U.S. court will next week hold itS firSt hearing in CNRP official Meach Sovannara&rSquo;S lawSuit againSt Prime MiniSter Hun Sen&rSquo;S eldeSt Son, Hun Manet, for wrongful impriSonment, according to a lawyer involved in the caSe. SS='cambodia-color'>...

Cambodia’s state secretary of Civil Aviation (ssCA) says it is ready to comply with an audit from the United Nations’ International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) after having fared poorly during the last two inspections in 2007 and 2009.    ss='cambodia-color'>...

Nearly 1,000 workers from three factories in Phnom Penh’s Por senchey district yesterday protested after learning that their employer has fled without paying their January wages. ss='cambodia-color'>...

One thing President Barack Obama will not see in Cambodia is pleas for help painted on rooftops near the airport. Authorities on Thursday arrested eight villagers who had hoped to attract the attention of Air Force One by plastering the U.s. president’s picture on their rooftops ss='cambodia-color'>...

Decriminalising sex work could slash the world’s HIV infections by a third or more, according to a new study. Published yesterday in health journal The Lancet, the paper says that punitive treatment of sex workers can “elevate HIV acquisition and transmission risks”. In Cambodia, which has southeast Asia’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

It started with a small, dark spot on Oeur Pisey’s left arm: A spot that he simply ignored. slowly, other spots appeared. They soon covered Mr. Pisey’s thighs, upper body, and eventually, his face. A local health clinic in Kompong Cham province told him not to worry: ss='cambodia-color'>...